Sign 'O' The Times Survivor Finals




voting results from round 14:

Dorothy : 41
SOTT : 26
IIWYG: 12

so before we head to the finals , we must say good bye to

BALLAD OF DOROTHY PARKER


On to the finals of Sign O' The Times Survivor :


Sign 'O' the Times

vs.

If I Was Your Girlfriend


In voting for this round vote for the song you would like to see win. Please state clearly your vote. Any post with simply a song title will be taken as a vote for that song to win. You are not voting to eliminate rather voting for the champion.



Voting open til Friday 11am US eastern time. One vote per account, please. All multple votes are thrown out.


Eliminated:
#3 Ballad of Dorothy Parker
#4 I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
#5 Adore
#6 Strange Relationship
#7 Housequake
#8 Forever in My Life
#9 Starfish and Coffee
#10 The Cross
#11 Hot Thing
#12 U Got the Look
#13 It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
#14 It
#15 Play in the Sunshine
#16 Slow Love
[Edited 2/25/05 7:45am]

There is no question here. His greatest song ever is.....

If I was your girlfriend!!!

if i was your girlfriend.

Damn! I can't believe y'all voted off Dorothy Parker. Anyways, the best song of the remaining two is Sign O The Times.

Sign O' The Times...even though it should have been

Adore vs. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man


in the finals.

Ali vs. Foreman...Clay vs. Ruben...Bush vs. Gore...Yankees vs. Red Sox...Godzilla vs. Mothra...this battle has to be up there with those. I'm literally sweating profusely as I mull over the choice. But, as I calm my erratic breathing and astral project through my brain, it becomes clear which song has had a bigger impact on me. The song that, when the first time I heard it on the radio, I couldn't believe I was hearing it on the radio. It was so stark, so real, so affecting. It was a year out from the Challenger exploding and P was singing about it as another link in a chain of brutal events that we become subjected to on a day to day basis. A chain we had almost become numb to. The man was singing about crack and AIDS which, up to that time, almost no one had been brave enough to approach. The drum beat was downright hypnotic and forces you to bob your head to what is one of the bleakest damn songs of all time. But Prince gives us redemption at the end...the cure to the blues, the way to keep moving. Find someone to love and perhaps, if you have a child, Nate is a nice name. How in the HELL this was not song and record of the year I will never know!

Girlfriend is classic too because no one has ever really captured the weirdness and complexity and confusion of gender roles better in a song. But it didn't touch me in the same way. Both are like paintings in a Princely museum. I look at Girlfriend and I appreciate the artistry, its craftsmanship, its bravery, with dry unemotional eyes. I look at Sign and every damn time the song hits me in the gut. Those of you who are in your early 20's and do not remember it on the radio, you just cannot understand how fresh and new this song was at the time. And to this day, it is still timely, maybe now more than over.

My vote goes for: Sign O The Times

I VOTE FOR "IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND"

BETTER OF THE TWO SONGS

Sign of The Times


...cause the other is SO overrated!

And the winner is.....

IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND

Dorothy Parker should have been # 2, or even # 1

SOTT

If I was your Girlfriend (just for that "fur" coat he wears in the movie)
[Edited 2/23/05 9:56am]

[b]Sign O' The Times

Two of his very best songs, IMHO! Both of them lyrically and musically interesting and challenging, and both of which still stand up today. It's a close call, and I'd be happy to see either of them win, but I think I'm gonna go with.....

IF I WAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND

I like P's work on the few occasions where he lifts the veil and lets us see him vulnerable. This is the sort of song that I think only he can really pull off - and, in doing so, he tells us something interesting about masculinity, loneliness, the desire for intimacy, etc, from a unique perspective. (Although, he does start to ramble a bit at the end..... but, hey, don't we all.....!)

Because of his new live, funky version of SOTT, I'ma have to go with this.

IIWYG to win.

DAMN! This is not easy. How could picking a song be so freakin difficult? Why!, Why!, Why!,

Gotta go with If I Was Your Girl Friend
[Edited 2/23/05 11:06am]

OMG!!! I can't believe this came down to SOTT vs IIWYG!! Have you folks been listening??? Anyway, I say IIWYG is the winner, SOTT should have been gone long ago!!

Sign O' the Times, based on seeing it performed live at HOB Vegas last year.

Strange Relationship for the win!

Sign of the Times....If I was your girlfriend? Ehhh, it is ok. I like the song, expecially the lyrics but I think it is a little overrated.

pennylover said:[quote]DAMN! This is not easy. How could picking a song be so freakin difficult? Why!, Why!, Why!,
SOTT u gotta go

If I Was Your Girl Friend is 2 freakin sexy

oops
Sign of the times
[Edited 2/23/05 11:09am]

I'm still mad at y'all behind "Adore."

But I digress.

I vote to ELIMINATE SOTT and to SELECT IIWYG. It is important as the leadoff for the album, and is a classic song in its own right, but IIWYG is the better song, overall. Honestly, I can't believe SOTT survived "Adore" and "BODP."
[Edited 2/24/05 8:40am]

Glad to see that some of us still have taste . Truthfully, these are the two songs that I had thought would be left standing at the end (maybe with Adore as an alternate).


I pick Sign 'o' the Times for the win. The live performances from '87 edge it for me.

Alright bitches. I'm back in the mix. I was so upset after y'all fucked up the voting for this album that I took a few rounds off, but I will not be a bystander for the final round. Between these 2, it's gotta be If I was Your Girlfriend that survives. What I'm in dismay is that Sign of the Times" lasted this long. The lyrics are great, but the music??? Are you kidding me? MAybe the reason why this song lasted so long is that it doesn't really have an identity. It's neither here nor there. Meaning, no one's in love with it, but no one minds it. That's my philosophy. But how can a song like this slip throught the cracks, and much more muscially inclined songs such as Adore, ICNTTPOYM, and Dorothy Parker take a back seat?? It just doesn't make sense. Please people, at least get this voting right: If I was Your Girlfriend is better than SOTT, but Adore is still the champion in my book.

-phunk

Phunk said:

I agree that Adore is easily the most definitive and moving song off SOTT, but I totally disagree with you about ppl not really loving SOTT passionately. I happen to absolutely love it to death, I think it's an amazing pop song with a lot of meaning. Musically, I think it's really unique sounding and addictive in its own simple way.

I vote for my favorite Prince song

If I Was Your Girlfriend

PurpleKnight said:

PurpleKnight (nice name by the way): Thanks for replying. I was beginning to think SOTT slipped through the cracks. I absolutely love his recent live versions of the song where he does that blistering guitar solo at the end...but the album version? You really dig the album version?
-phunk